A JUDGE has warned London drug gangs who travel to Essex to peddle their lethal wares they face hard-line jail sentences from the courts.

Troy Daniel-Kennard, 24, was jailed for four years even though he had no drugs when police swooped on him in Clacton.

Cash and drug dealing mobile phones were found in his car.

Jailing him yesterday Judge David Turner QC said: “People who come from London cynically to pursue this sort of activity in Essex towns receive no sympathy whatever from judges here.”

The judge told Daniel-Kennard: “Class A drugs are a great evil. They wreck lives as they have wrecked your life.”

Daniel-Kennard was believed to be a member of the ‘Jamal Line’ – a London gang who travel to Essex to deal in drugs such as crack cocaine and heroin.

He admitted being concerned in the supply of crack and heroin on November 10 last year and possessing criminal property – £1,968 cash – in Clacton.

Daniel-Kennard, of of Bayston Road, in Stoke Newington, also admitted possessing an offensive weapon – a baton – in a “vicious” gang-related street fracas in Wood Green on August 6 last year.

The court heard Daniel-Kennard travelled to Essex with friend Seyi Ani-Agbaje, who had to answer police bail for alleged drug dealing in Clacton.

The car, cash and some of the phones found in the car belonged to Ani-Agbaje, who is now serving a three-year sentence for Clacton drug offences.

Daniel-Kennard admitted two of the phones were his.

One had 49 texts with messages such as “best crack cocaine and heroin around and I can deliver”.

Daniel-Kennard claimed he only dealt in cannabis but the court heard he was jailed for two years in 2014 for possessing heroin with intent to supply.

Alistair Polson, mitigating, said Daniel-Kennard had missed his young son growing up and vowed to give up drug dealing.